related works
Seraphic Ride : for nine instruments / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl ob cl perc pf hrp vl vla vc
El rigor : for voice and small orchestra, 1990 / Maurice Horsthuis
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
female voice 0020 sax-a 1210 str(vl vla cb)
She weeps over Rahoon : for soprano and orchestra, 1980, Roel van Oosten / [text] (James Joyce)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2222 4231 timp perc hp pf str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 4322 4330 timp 4-6perc hp str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Other authors:
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans